From the monthly archives: October 2006

Calling a function from within preg_replace

By On October 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Regular expressions are awesome. However, sometimes doing everything in them is extremely difficult, or impossible. Luckily, we can flex the power of preg_replace’s ‘e’ option to execute the replacement string as PHP code.

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Pretty URLs using Multiviews

By On October 12, 2006 · 11 Comments

I saw a post on digg.com about how it’s nice to have “pretty urls” that are easy to tell people. While i’m not sure anyone would remember rustyrazorblade.com slash some ridiculous post name, it’s nice to have for search engines. Unfortunately, it didn’t really go into detail about how to accomplish the urls. A lot [...]

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